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Nashville singer-songwriter Billy Falcon is set to appear as rock band Bon Jovi’s special guest during a Feb. 21 tour stop in Raleigh, N.C., in celebration of Falcon’s new solo album, When.

“Billy Falcon is not only one of my favorite guys, he was -- and is still -- one of my favorite songwriters,” said friend Jon Bon Jovi. “We have collaborated many times, not only for my records, but we have written songs for other artists who have found that special something in the song.”

Falcon has co-written more than a dozen songs on the past six Bon Jovi albums, and Jon Bon Jovi and band member Richie Sambora contributed to songs on When. The solo album is available digitally now on iTunes.

Falcon and The Sowing Circle play regularly at Nashville's Blue Bar (1911 Broadway); their next scheduled appearance is tomorrow (Jan. 20), starting at 9 p.m.

Click to see a gallery of photos from Bon Jovi's Bridgestone Arena show (this image: Mandy Lunn/The Tennessean).

“(Nashville) is a very important city to me,” singer Jon Bon Jovi said from the Bridgestone Arena stage Wednesday night, as his surnamed band’s Circle Tour made its way to Music City. “We’ve been coming here for a long time and have a lot of good friends here.”

Bon Jovi recently spent a healthy share of time in Nashville, writing and recording much of 2007 album Lost Highway. The singer said he didn’t plan for his band to follow up that album so soon with 2009’s The Circle, but that the state of the world over the last 18 months made him feel like he had no other choice.

“We have to sift through it all and make it make sense,” he said. “I guess what I’m trying to say is this is more the ‘we’ decade than the ‘me’ decade.”

The Circle reflects that sentiment, and the band worked flawless versions of five of its 12 songs into their 23-song set, including current single “Superman Tonight” and “When We Were Beautiful,” which the singer introduced as “one of the songs I’m most proud of.” The crowd responded favorably, but the older hits still seemed to connect most with the near-16,000 people in the audience.Continue reading →